Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” midterm agenda at a town hall in Monongahela, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh.
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Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” midterm agenda at a town hall in Monongahela, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh.
- The Republican plan will support U.S. energy production, fight crime by hiring more police, and reenact Trump-era border policies to stop illegal immigration from Mexico.
- McCarthy, the likely next Speaker of the House should Republicans win the majority, called the agenda “a plan for a new direction” and promised the first bill he’d introduce next year will be to repeal the IRS expansion enacted by Democrats earlier this year.
- The “Commitment to America” has four major pillars: “creating “an economy that’s strong,” “a nation that’s safe,” “a future that’s built on freedom” and “a government that’s accountable.”
- The Washington Post reported House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) also gave a speech in the Pittsburgh area on Friday. Hoyer attacked the Republican plan as light on specifics and hailed his party’s recent legislative successes like the infrastructure law.
- MSNBC chided the plan’s “problems” and argued the “Commitment to America” was “vague by design” to cover up what Rachel Maddow Show producer Steve Benen called a “deeply unpopular” agenda.
- NPR said Republicans’ agenda was “big on ideas but short on policy specifics.” Congressional correspondent Susan Davis noted unveiling a policy platform has been a tradition for the minority party since Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” in 1994.
- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote, “The House Republican Commitment to America is a major, well-thought-out, and serious contribution to restoring an America that works,” in an op-ed for Fox News. He favorably compared it to his 1994 “Contract with America.”
- The Washington Examiner outlined some of the plan’s priorities: undoing the IRS expansion, boosting energy production, and hiring 200,000 police officers.
- Breitbart reported Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled the platform at a town hall in Monongahela, Pennsylvania along with 30 other House Republicans.
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